It took firefighters nearly two hours to get it under control. This morning, fire investigators continue to search for clues revealing how the building caught on fire shortly before 7 p.m. It's hard to reconcile the images post-fire, even though the synagogue was long vacant and in ill fix. Once housing the city's oldest Jewish Orthodox congregation, Beit Hamedrash has stood empty since 2007, NBC reported.

The U.S. said it was because of intelligence suggesting terrorists could hide explosives in those larger devices. DHS spokesman David Lapan said no announcement was planned for Friday on whether the US government will expand the ban and that no final decision had been made on expanding the restrictions.

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Mattis said that Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford discussed the initiative with his Russian counterpart, Valery Gerasimov, on Saturday. Mattis is in Copenhagen to attend a meeting of the anti-ISIS coalition. Both diplomats will still travel to Fairbanks for that summit, where Tillerson will also meet individually with other foreign ministers.

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Mulvaney said the White House will turn next to the 2018 budget, and wouldn't balk at a government shutdown if necessary to get it passed, echoing Trump's tweet earlier in the day that the USA "needs a good shutdown ". "I think the president is frustrated with the fact that he negotiated in good faith with the Democrats and they went out to try to spike the football and make him look bad", Mulvaney said.

The hunt was on for the culprits behind the assault, which was being described as the biggest-ever cyber ransom attack. Microsoft released fixes for the vulnerability in March, but computers that didn't run the update were subject to the ransom attack.

Last year, prompted by online attacks, the Turnbull Government outlined a $230 million cyber safety plan, which Tehan believes has offered a degree of protection for Australia. The Nissan vehicle plant in Sunderland is still suffering from issues caused by the ransomware attack which forced auto production to a halt on Friday night.

So far there has been no progress reported in efforts to determine who launched the plot. "But let me just assure you, we are spending money on strengthening the cyber defence of our hospital system". Microsoft took the unusual step late Friday of making free patches available for older Windows systems, such as Windows XP from 2001. It said less than 1% of computers were affected, and that the virus was now "localized" and being destroyed.

Europol executive director Rob Wainwright said the situation could worsen on Monday when workers return to their offices after the weekend and log on. The attack is unique, according to Wainwright, because it combines ransomware with a worm function, meaning once one machine is infected, the entire internal network is scanned and other vulnerable machines are infected.